Entranceway chime

*Location:

   Dansk Klokkemuseum
   (Danish Bell Museum)
   Over Lerte Kirke
   Farrisvej 12
   Sommersted, Sønderjyllands Amt, Denmark
   LL: N 55.37834, E 9.27730

   Falken Restaurant
   Aalborg

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*Contact:

   Dansk Klokkemuseum
   Over Lerte Kirke
   Farrisvej 12
   DK-6560 Sommersted
   T: 7542 3873  or  7455 1830
   E: mbwind@gmail.com

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Bells formerly flanked the main
   entrance of an Aalborg restaurant.
   Now operated by roll player.

*Technical data:

   Electric-automatic chime of 12 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is C  in the itty-bitty octave
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   Transposition is not applicable
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The whole instrument was installed in 2002
     with bells made by Eijsbouts in 1973
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2006

The museum Website (in Dansk and Deutsch, formerly also in English) shows these bells now flanking the front door of the building.  Photos illustrate the different types of bells.

A photo album page shows many aspects of the museum; see also the following album page.

The Danish Wikipedia has a 3-sentence article about the museum. with a photo showing this chime around the entrance.
The related Wikimedia Commons category is named after the church that formerly owned the building, and has almost a dozen exterior photos.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Eijsbouts bellfoundry, in this region and in the world.

Ranking among all Scandinavian chimes by pitch (weight).
Ranking among all Scandinavian chimes by size (number of bells).
Ranking among all Scandinavian chimes by year of completion.

Index to all tower bell instruments in DK/Jylland.

   This page was built from the database on 25-Aug-25
   based on textual data last updated on 2025/08/18
   and on technical data last updated on 1992/06/26